Cooh Deh – Look at this, because this is the Sound for the People

Earlier this year, the Dude DJ Prince from the Duck Down Records family hit us up about a dancehall- and reggae-inspired hip-hop project he was working on called Test My Sound. This was before the whole trend of dancehall samples in hip-hop really took off and Prince had an idea for a hip-hop release that subtly incorporated ideas and influences from dancehall more than it borrowed the sound, citing Mad Lion’s Da Real Ting and The Fugees’ The Score as influences.

This is Apollo Brown’s very first beat collection put together in 2007 a few years before winning the Red Bull Big Tune Championship in Detroit and then signing to Mello Music Group. The collection has been such a popular record around the office for the past few years that we decided to make it available to everyone here.